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PERPETUAL CALENDAR AND MENU GARD Filed sept. '21. 1929 2 sheets-sheet 2 @7325/5 Spay/e Patented Feb. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LOUIS E. SPEEGLE, F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB T0 ALL AMERICAN SERVICE, A COPARTNERSHIP COMPOSED 0F 0. K. MITCHELL AND LOUIS E. SPEEGLE PERPETUAL CALENDR AND MENU CARD Application filed September 21, 1929. Serial'No. 394,189.

My invention-` rela-tes generally to perpetual.calendarsand` more particularly to a combination perpetual calendar and menu card.

Av further Objectis to provide an improvedr means for indicating the dates and days of the Week of the various holidays for past, present and future years.

A further object is to provide an improved meansV for displaying or selecting suitable, well balanced menus.

A further object is to provide in combination: with said menu-selecting means an improved means to serve as a reminder of the time when food should be removed from the oven.

Other objects will appear from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig; 1 is an elevation of the combined menu card and perpetual calendar; f

Fig. 2' is a vertical section thereof taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3' is a detail showingthe perpetual calendar disc;

Fig. 4 is al fragmentary detail of the menu disc.

As best shown in Fi 1, the combination perpetual calendar an menu-selecting device comprises a heavy sheet of cardboard to which a calendar disc 12 is rotatably secured by an eyelet 14 and to which a menu disc 16 is rotatably secured by an eyelet 18.

y The menu card has a'suitable arcuate opening 20 of sufficient width to display the days of a month, which are printed on the calendar disc 12. The disc 12 has a plurality of notches 22 in its periphery, these notches being diametrically opposite one of the radial rows of dates 24 printed on the face of the disc. The notches 22 are adapted to register with a hole 26 adjacent the top of the sheet l0 so that when the sheet is hung upon a nail or vother similar supporting means the disc 12 will be held against rotation.

At each endof the arcuate opening 20y are lists 28j of the holidays, which are adapted to register with radial rows 30 of data suitably imprinted upon the disc 12, and by means of which the date and day of the week upon which a holiday will fall in any given year may readily be determined.

5 The menu disc 16 as shown in Fig. 4 comprises concentric rows of menus, the inner concentric row 34 giving suitable menus for breakfast, the intermediate row 36y giving suitable menusl for luncheon, and the outer row 38 giving the menus for dinners. Adjacent the periphery of the disc 16. are the figures 5/5'z10/5z15/5z20/5z30/ etc., which are adapted to be observed through a notch 40 formed in the center of the bottom of the sheet 10. The user of the device may thus set the disc 16 to a position so that the time at which'the 'food is to be removed from the oven will be indicated by the ligures appearing through this notch 40.

The sheet 10 has an aperture 42 through which the breakfast menus may be observed, apertures 44, and 46 through which the luncheon menus may be observed, and an aperturer 48 through which the dinner menus may be Y observed. The menus are so correlated that the luncheon and dinner menus in any radial row on the disc 16 may suitably be combined with the luncheon menus in the adjacent radial rows so that a balanced daily ration may be had by using the breakfast menu ap pearing through the opening 42, either of the luncheon menus appearing through. the openings 414 and 4:6, and the dinner menu appearing through the opening 48.

It will be noted that each of the radial rows of menushas a designating number. For eX- ample, the rows appearing through the openingsin the sheet l() in Fig. 1 are rows 11, 10 and 9. These numbers are related to the numbers appearing on tables 50, 52 and 54 printed upon the face of the sheet 10 directly above the menu openings. In these tablesthe principal' items of food of the various meals are listed, together with a number indicating the menu in which this item appears; thus, for example, it will appear in table 50 that cold cereals may be found on menus 4, 7 10, 11, etc. and by reference to breakfast menu 10 it will befound that this'menu has the cold cereal lpued wheat incorporated therein'. In

the same manner it will appear from the table y 52 that a'salad is a composite part of the menus 2, 3,4, 6, 7,"10,v11,'etc. aiid'through the opening 44 it will be observed that'menu 11 comprises fruit salad. vrIhus having de cided theprincipal food of the menu, other foods which will form a balanced ration with' the Vprincipal food selected may readily be determined. v

rIhe face of the sheet 10 may also have imprinted thereon other useful data such as the table 56 which indicates the length 'of time variousV foods should be cooked, and the table 58which gives the equivalents of weights and measures of various substances. f

It will vbe noted that-tli`e disc 16 projects slightly beyond the side edges of the sheet 10 so that the disc may be conveniently ro-V tated andrthat the disc 12Vlilewise projects slightly beyond the upper rounded edge of the sheet for a similarreason. I

' In operation the disc 12 is first set so that the proper date appears above the proper day of the week and then the device vmay be hung upon a nailwhich passes Vthrough one of the'V notchesv 22 andthe hole 26, in which position it may remain setduring the remainderof the month, the factrth'at thev nail or other suitable supporting inea-ns passes' throughy the notch 26 preventing accidental displacement ofthe disc. Y Y

` It has previously been described how the dates and days of the week upon which-the variousV holidays fall is determined.

As previously intimated, the menu Vdisc is used by first selecting from one of the tables 50, 52, 54 the principal food to be served with the meal and then by rotating the menu disc 16 to the menu number corresponding -to that which appears after the principal food in the tables 50, 52, 54 a Vbalanced menu will be selected. By observing thetime for cooking the food from the table 56,by mental calculation of the time when the food is to be'taken from the stove the disc may be set so that this time appears through'the notch 40 and thus serve as a remindery to the user that the food is to be removed from the stove orv oven.

IVhile what I have illustrated describes a particular embodiment of my invention, I desire it to be understood that I do not wish to be limited to the particular details thereof but what I desire to secure by Letters Patent appears inthe following claims:

1. In a perpetual calendar, a sheet having an arcuate opening therein, and a disc rotatably. secured beneath said sheet and having a portion thereof observable through said cent the radial dege of said opening, whereby the day rof the week and date upon which a particular holiday will fall in a given year may readily be determined.

2. In a perpetual calendar, the combination `ofasheet having a sight aperture and a hole by'which the sheet may be hung upon a nail or similar support, and a thin, slightly flex? ibledisc rotatablyl secured behind said sheet and having? a portion thereof observable i through said aperture, said vdischaving a plurality of notches in its periphery, said notches being adapted to register with said hole, whereby when said calendar is hung upona nail or similar support passingl through one of said notches and threugh said hole, said disc will normally be held against rotation relative te said sheet, butfwhen said sheet isswung toward the axis of said nail said vdisc may be flexed sufficiently to permit rotation thereof. y

3. A er etual calendar comprising a sheet .l D l having an arcuately shaped opening therein` a iieXible disc rotatablyfsecur'ed behind saidv sheet, a portion of said disc.V observable through said opening and; saiddisc having imprintedV on a section of its faceradi al rows` of dates which coincide with lists of hohdays imp-rintedlon the'face of'fsaid sheet adr gacent the radial edges of said opening.

- 4. A eroetual calendar com t risin'o' a sheet p l p 6') having an arcuately shaped opening therein` a iiexible disc rotatably'securedbehind said. sheet, ak portion of said disc: 'observable through said opening and `said discthaving A imprinted on a section of its face radial rows of dates which coincide with lists of holidays imprinted on the face of saidsheet adjacent the radial edges of said opening andsaid disc having the days of the month imprinted thereon in radial rows to register with the days of the week imprinted on the'face of said sheet along the outer edge ofsaid arcuately shaped opening. Y Y y Y c Inwitness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 19th dayv of September, 1929.7.-

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